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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
~ Salman Rushdie
Arabian
Banned
Censor
Defy
Description
Great
Impose
Nights
Sometimes
Themselves
Ulysses
Works
World
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Act
Any
Become
Beings
Famous
Feelings
Get
Human
Human Beings
Hurt
I Think
Like
More
People
Perception
Public
Say
Sometimes
Them
Think
You
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
~ Salman Rushdie
Book
Finish
Got
Know
Quite
Sometimes
You
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ask
Baby
Compare
Female
Having
Having A Baby
Novel
Novelist
Pain
Sometimes
Unlike
Writing
You
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
~ Salman Rushdie
Find
Like
People
Sometimes
Trying
Unlike
Voice
Write
You
Your
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
~ Salman Rushdie
Accepted
Family
Female
Friends
Know
Largely
Muslim
Single
Sisters
Somebody
Speaking
Three
Veil
Very
Wearing
Who
Woman
Would
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
~ Salman Rushdie
Belonging
Embarrassing
Every
Families
Family
Funny
Important
Knowing
Proof
Proud
Shameful
Some
Stories
Them
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ability
About
Accidents
Both
Brought
Conflict
Different
Different Parts
Difficulty
End
Everywhere
Given
Life
Make
Me
My Life
Nowhere
Parts
Sometimes
Stories
Together
Up
Which
World
Write
Writing
You
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
~ Salman Rushdie
Another
Another Way
Answer
Being
Religion
Thinking
Way
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Chinese
Good
Pretty
Repression
Ruthless
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Along
Christian
Christianity
Christians
Coalition
Even
Go
Idea
Many
Might
Still
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
~ Salman Rushdie
Account
As Far As
Autobiography
Between
Difference
Far
Full
I See
Life
Memoir
Particular
Primarily
See
Story
Tell
Tries
Whereas
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The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
~ Salman Rushdie
Continue
Dance
Enemy
Extremely
Fanatic
Get
How
Important
Indulge
Madly
Makes
Pleasure
Rid
Terrorism
Which
You
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
~ Salman Rushdie
Aware
Been
Composer
Composition
Context
Field
Has-Been
Historical
History
I Think
Make
Music
Novel
Now
Part
Possibilities
Revealed
Rich
Same
The History Of
Think
Trying
Very
Way
Well
Write
Writing
You
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
~ Salman Rushdie
Allowed
Amendment
Defends
First
First Amendment
Forms
Groups
Hate
Including
Klan
Like
Poisonous
Remarks
Speech
Utter
Which
Why
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
~ Salman Rushdie
Any
Being
Controversial
Frustrating
Go
Look
Looking
Part
People
Trouble
Where
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
~ Salman Rushdie
Best
Best Work
Gamble
Hope
How
I Can
I Hope That
I See
Literature
Make
Most
Obviously
Out
Put
Representative
Say
See
Then
Things
Think
Truthful
Try
Well
Work
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
~ Salman Rushdie
Being
Forbidden
Glamour
Must
Underestimated
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The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
~ Salman Rushdie
After
Being
Concern
Great
Increasingly
Journalists
Neutral
Numbers
Other
Pursuit
Rather
Rising
Seen
Side
Work
Year
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Actually
Did
Existed
History
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Jobs
Knew
Know
Make
Much
People
Sometimes
Them
Thing
Up
You
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